Inciting joy with Ross Gay
The TED Interview
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Insiting Joy, Part 2
"I would not infrequently have people wonder if joy is serious, if it's a serious subject of inquiry," he says. "It strikes me as a particularly dangerous fantasy by which I also mean it is sad ... that we often think of joy as meaning quote without pain or quote without sorrow." He adds: "To reiterate our consumer culture has us believing [joy] is a state of being that we could buy"
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